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From the tower window of my bookhouse

448 pages : 24 cm · An anthology of literature for the youngest children including nursery rhymes, fables, folk tales, poems and stories primarily from American and British sources but from many other places, too · Illustrated title page and lining-papers in colors · Lettered on back: My bookhouse: from the tower window, five · Many illustrations are signed, and include the following: Donn P. Crane, M.D. Charleson · List of stories and poems arranged alphabetically · An address to new-made citizens / Woodrow Wilson -- The story of Alfred, the Saxon (English history) -- Bannockburn / Robert Burns -- The bugle song / Alfred Tennyson --A tale of the Cid and his daughters (from the Spanish epic, the Cid) -- Coaly-Bay, the outlaw horse / Ernest Thompson Seton -- Cuchulain, the Irish hound (from ancient Gaelic songs) -- The surprising adventures of Don Quixote / Miguel de Cervantes ; arranged by Frances Jenkins Olcott -- The emperor's new clothes / Hans Christian Andersen -- The exile of Rama (from the East Indian epic, Ramayana) -- Stanzas on freedom / James Russell Lowell -- Frithjof the Viking (From the Norse saga of Frithjof) -- Gathering song of Donuil Dhu / Sir Walter Scott -- The

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